Talk:Loyalty (Shostakovich)

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 22:20, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that the "favorable comparisons of Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in Dmitri Shostakovich's Loyalty "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"? Source: Dmitry Shostakovich by Pauline Fairclough (2019), p. 151
  • ALT1: ... that the texts set by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Loyalty have been described as "truly dreadful"? Source: Dmitry Shostakovich by Pauline Fairclough (2019), p. 151
  • ALT2: ... that Dmitri Shostakovich's paean to Lenin, Loyalty, is said to be the closest the atheist composer came to writing religious music? Source: "Shostakovich was not a religious believer and he wrote no church music. In a strange way, this work is the nearest he came to music of this kind." [1]
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  • Comment: QPQ coming soon... Done!

Created by CurryTime7-24 (talk). Self-nominated at 07:26, 13 May 2022 (UTC).

• Very interesting article, and it raises some interesting questions. The article is long enough, new enough, and well written. AGF on offline sources, but anyone who has heard the piece would probably agree with many of the judgments. QPQ done, hooks are interesting, in the article, and referenced. I prefer ALT2, although ALT0 is also excellent. Nice work. Constantine ✍ 18:39, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Interview with Dolmatovsky?

I seem to recall an interview with Dolmatovsky, perhaps from late in his life, wherein he talked about collaborating with Shostakovich on Op. 136. I thought it was in one of the issues of the DSCH Journal or maybe in one of my copies of the Russian-language books on the composer, but for the life of me I can't find it. Perhaps it was published online? Searched for it in Russian and English, but to no avail. If anybody knows about the interview I'm talking about and knows where one can find it, please let me know so I can use it to improve this article. Thanks! —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 02:49, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Never mind. Finally found it in a collection of articles assembled in a posthumous 70th birthday tribute to Shostakovich. Not much more was found therein, as most had already been quoted in Khentova, but there were a couple of interesting bits. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2022 (UTC)